Students return to Morgantown with heightened police presence and emergency calls

Local News August 12, 2026

MORGANTOWN - As West Virginia University students arrive on campus this week, local officials anticipate increased police presence and emergency calls. Chief Eric Powell of the Morgantown Police Department said that as the city population doubles in size with the students' return, so do ...

As WVU students return, let’s put the ‘welcome’ in ‘Welcome Week’

Editorial August 13, 2024

Tomorrow, Morgantown officially welcomes (and welcomes back) WVU students for the fall semester. You may have noticed an uptick in traffic already, as students who had to come back early have filtered in. But tomorrow and Friday are the official move-in days, and things will likely be hectic ...